WITH silver pen nib earrings glistening in the sun streaming through the windows of a Newcastle hotel, Chelsea Cain looks every bit the best selling author she is, but the calm exterior hides a mind sharper than any scalpel wielded by her serial killer creation Gretchen Lowell, the so-called Beauty Killer.

The top three winning inventions were: | The Lucas Abrams pacemaker, invented in 1960 by Leon Abrams and first fitted at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital | The mass produced pen nib, invented by John Mitchell in Newhall Street during 1822 | The first immersed heating resistor, which paved the way for the first electric kettles, invented in 1922 by Arthur L.

City steel pen nib manufacturers were unable to keep up with the changes in technology needed to produce ballpoints, and 140 years of steel pen nib manufacture in Birmingham had ended by the early 1960s.

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